Call for Mail Art: Weird (existing) Animals!
Platypus, Tapir, Okapi, Echidna, Mole, Axolotl are some of my favourite animals. They have in common that they exist irl and that they are uncommon.
Which animal do you think odd?
Send your image of an unusual (existing, no fantasy) animal.
All media are welcomed, preferable postcard size (10x15 cms), maximum A4 (20x30 cms).
No jury, no fee, no return.
All weird existing animals will be published in this ongoing virtual exhibition.

donderdag 31 juli 2014

Borderline Grafix took part in some add-and-pass mail art and forwarded collage sheets.
I am the lucky receiver of some to-add-and-pass-on sheets. But first show some here. See those stamps, showing an Eagle and a minxus Mink! And of course there are a lot of human beings around.

And the great envelopes (which I don't have to pass on): I like the rubber stamp print of the weird unidentified insect and the butterfly artistamp (the latter has been created by Amy Irwen, so to see?)!

woensdag 30 juli 2014

On the artistamp on the envelope Chocolatine & Stooby had sent me, there's a beautiful bird: the Seagull!

And inside a great water colour painting of someone who reminds me of the fairytale Snowwhite. One can discuss whether dwarves, like smurfs, belong to the animal world (and 'thus' to this site), but as I wanted to post him, too, I think the answer tmo is 'yes'.

The artistamp is part of a mail art call: Pirate boat. I had a boat to draw in mind, but thinking of the link to this 'Real weird animals' blog, suddenly there came a lot of animals in mind which I could add to my pirate boat drawing to send to Chocolatine et Stooby. Animals other than pirates, like rats, the rat-chasing cat, parrots, dodos and prehistoric animals.

I received two letters from Eva, which had something in common. A Lion, a Cow with four horns... Does there ring a bell already?
Not with me, although I recognized the cow from Eva's Vache Qui Rit postal project. And the Lion, the shy way he looked, reminded me of a book I've seen years ago. But what would be the match between them?

The words Eva had written outside and inside, made it all clear: both weird animals are characters from the famous story 'Wizard of Oz'. Because the book I had read in the past only was a shortened version, I had missed this uncommon cow. I thought. But from the internet I learned that Imogene the (sometimes two-, sometimes four-horned) cow originated from a later moment, the stage adaptation in 1902, and not from the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz which had been written in 1900.
So I am educated thanks to mail art! And we will learn even more, by watching Eva's new mail art project which is about the Wizard of Oz!

dinsdag 29 juli 2014

After the first Sula, more Sulidae arrived now.
On the front side of the mail art card even more birds: Chickens! With an invitation to go for a walk. Always a good idea, because outside there are many more beautiful birds to see and hear. However, so far I am happy with these ones Stripygoose has sent me from the United Kingdom.

maandag 28 juli 2014

Richard Baudet sent this mail art for the IUOMA group 'Orange Lovers'. However, the beautiful butterfly is an amazing creature and deserves room in this blog, of course, too.

On the back Richard wrote colourful words in his great handwriting, words which we, mail artists and post lovers, fully agree with: thank you, postmen/postwomen!
And thank you, merci beaucoup, Richard!

A dangerous and prehistoric looking reptile, but I'm sure she's a creative creature. Mail art created and sent by Artist in Seine.

Along this animal, a lot of cyclists also were sent by Dean. This time from the United Kingdom, which of course makes us wonder why the Tour de France is called the Tour of France, and not the Tour de Royaume-Uni-et-France this year?

Over mij

Click on the profile link below to see my three ongoing mail art projects:
Real Weird Animals,
Your Doctor in Mail Art, and
Our Solitudes.
Would you like to join? Mail me at heleen21artmail at yahoo dot com or see in the oldest messages for the snail mail address to send your work to. Thank you very much in advance!